Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice vote, the House passed a bill to pump another $9.8 billion over the next eleven years into the federal highway program. That would permit the building of a 41,000-mile interstate network to be completed in the early 1970s. Resisting heavy pressures from the oil and trucking lobbies, the House voted to bankroll the bill by continuing the current 4?-per-gallon tax on gasoline and diesel fuel (both were slated to drop to 3? next month), and to boost taxes on trucks, tires, inner tubes. The bill now goes to the Senate, which is expected to examine...
...Colorado Basin Project, the most ambitious water-harnessing program in U.S. history. The effort now includes four huge dam complexes and eleven satellite projects, is budgeted at more than $1 billion. But the U.S. Reclamation Department engineers insist that this is just the beginning; they talk of an expanding network of dams, power stations, storage lakes and irrigation canals that will stir to life huge, drowsing areas of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Industry is moving into the area. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. is building the world's largest mine-and-mill potash project at Cane Creek...
...Yuri actually make the flight? U.S. certainty that he had come by his honors honestly was based on a strategic network of listening posts capable of tuning in on the actual countdown, long-range radar tracking stations that plotted the orbit of the satellite and could even estimate its size and weight, electronic eavesdropping that may have overheard Yuri's radio reports to earth, and, finally, traditional cloak-and-dagger espionage inside the Soviet Union...
...going up that will eventually be home to 16,000 people. In Honolulu, plans are afoot to break ground for a 28-story, 1,056-unit cooperative apartment building. In Hong Kong, the foundation for a new 166-room hotel is being laid. In Manila, Tokyo and Bangkok a network of agents are investigating new business opportunities. Masterminding this transpacific wheeling and dealing is stocky, cigar-chomping Chinn Ho, 57, the prototype of Hawaii's newest business phenomenon: the self-made, fast-moving Hawaiian millionaire of Oriental descent...
ENCO, short for energy company, has been chosen as the nationwide name for Humble Oil's network of service stations (currently called Esso in the East...